Your Daily Insight as told by Bruce Lee

To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.

Your Daily Insight as told by Louise Nevelson

Logic, where you ponder and, oh dear, it sounds so fancy -- what in the hell do you need it for? It measures you and limits you. See now take a word like imagination. Imagination is not vague. Imagination is flash thinking, instantaneous.

Your Daily Insight as told by Some Dudes on the Street in Brooklyn

Today's is sort of a "reverse insight" -- meaning, on the surface it's completely uninspiring. But we overheard this little exchange on the street in Williamsburg yesterday and found it both infuriating and motivational (in that if there are people truly operating like this, all the more room for those of us who are trying to get things done.)

Is that them up there in the photo? No. But close enough.

Anyhow. Here's this pearl of wisdom, verbatim.

Guy #1:

Dude, I have like, INFINITY ideas kicking around in my head, but like, ZERO motivation or really like, any real DESIRE to actually DO any of them. You know, dude?

Guy #2:

Hahaha, totallllly dude.

So? There you have it. Please: Don't follow their lead.

Your Daily Insight as told by Christopher McCandless

If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.

Your Daily Insight as told by Pearl S. Buck

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

Your Daily Insight as told by Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Your Daily Insight as told by Steven Pressfield

Fuck self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will never back off. I will never give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I’ll be back.

Your Daily Insight as told by Louise Bourgeois

Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

Your Daily Insight as told by Jacques Derrida

There is not narcissism and non-narcissism; there are narcissisms that are more or less comprehensive, generous, open, extended. What is called non-narcissism is in general but the economy of a much more welcoming, hospitable narcissism, one that is much more open to the experience of the other as other. I believe that without a movement of narcissistic reappropriation, the relation to the other would be absolutedly destroyed, it would be destroyed in advance. The relation to the other--even if it remains asymmetrical, open, without possible reappropriation--must trace a movement of reappropriation in the image of oneself for love to be possible, for example. Love is narcissistic. Beyond that, there are little narcissisms, there are big narcissisms, and there is death in the end, which is the limit. Even in the experience--if there is one, of death, narcissism does not absolutely abdicate its power.

Your Daily Insight as told by Kurt Vonnegut

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.